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Re:Is Show HN Dead? No, but It's Drowning by yuppiepuppie on Tuesday February 17, 2026 @01:47PM (#47051333)
Interesting take on the sharing of prompts. I don’t think this is a bad idea. How would this work though given different prompts occur in different context windows?
Re:Is Show HN Dead? No, but It's Drowning by password4321 on Tuesday February 17, 2026 @03:38PM (#47052979)
I would like to see it as extended comments in each git commit. There have been a few examples of some doing so manually but it needs to be supported by the tooling... with all the half-arsed "standards" like MCP etc. I'm surprised there isn't something already.
Re:Is Show HN Dead? No, but It's Drowning by trollbridge on Tuesday February 17, 2026 @02:09PM (#47051644)
Internally, we have a standard that any AI written code simply includes a cut-and-paste of the chat prompt (if that were used), and/or the .md files (if those were used).
Re:Is Show HN Dead? No, but It's Drowning by eshaham78 on Tuesday February 17, 2026 @02:06PM (#47051595)
Good question. The key is sharing the full prompt chain/workflow rather than single prompts - think of it like sharing a Makefile instead of a single shell command. For LLM apps, that means exporting the conversation history, system prompts, and any context files. Tools like Claude Code already support this - you can export full session transcripts. The 'prompt' becomes the reproducible artifact, not just the instruction text.